Discover How I Skyrocketed My Blog Traffic by 4000%

Creating a WordPress blog with a beautiful theme, fancy opt-in form, lots of animation is easier but all these things wouldn’t be much useful unless you are able to drive traffic to it.

The common problem which bloggers face is how to drive traffic to their blog !

Although there are several ways of doing it such as social media, PPC, paid etc. but no traffic is as good as organic and in this post, I’ll discuss how moving to HostGator hosting plus tweaks with few plugins helped me drive great amount of organic traffic to one of my blog which had almost no traffic in spite of continuous work by my team mate.

Google keeps on changing methodology about how it priorities a website in SERP and we must stay updated with the latest recommendations.

For example, in my last post I discussed how Google going to punish mobile websites using intrusive ads which can not be easily dismissed.

According to Google, it creates problem for the users to access content on the website and in order to offer better user experience, big G may start punishing the websites.

However, if the popup is easily removable and content is easy accessible, you are good to go.

Anyways, I’m not going to discuss all this stuff in this post. This post is all about how a good web hosting and tweaks to improve page load time resulted in increase of massive amount of search traffic at one of my tech blog.

Before I start off with explaining all these stuff, take a look at few screenshots from Google analytics.

Why I’ve considered such a big time gap for GA, its to show how this site was struggling to receive traffic for such a long before it actually started to get organic traffic.

If you see the graph, the blog been receiving almost no traffic for such a long (see the graph is not taking off the ground line until Jul 13, 2016).

I will discuss what it took me to take this site from 41 sessions as on Jul 13, 2016 to 1764 sessions in next two months.

Below screenshot is taken by shortening the time period and you can see how the traffic started to grow since I made the changes I’ll be talking about..

The blog was placed nowhere as of Jul 13 but today it reached at 1764 sessions per day and its trending.

I’m expecting the traffic continues to grow and in next few months, I’m hopping to see much better traffic stats.

The below screenshot reveals majority of traffic has started to come from Google.

The blog which was nothing two months back in terms of traffic now gets more than 73% organic traffic is pretty cool.

Not only the traffic, people who are coming to the blog are spending decent amount of time on it.

The bounce rate of 65% still better than many good blogs such as Harsh Agarwal’s shoutmeloud blog which has almost 80% bounce rate.

Anyways, its just a rough calculations, there are lots of factors involved while calculating bounce rate.

What it took me to increase traffic

There are several things that I’d like to discuss that I had implemented to take this blog where it stands today.

It was dead for about 6 months now gets 1764 sessions per day and majority of the traffic coming from Google.

I made two major changes:

Moving blog from local hosting company to HostGator hosting.

Tweak with plugins to improve page load time further.

These two things helped me grow traffic and hence the adsense revenue. Let’s talk about them one by one.

I know for a beginner, its not justifiable to invest much money in a blog but keep in mind if you want to get something out of a business, you must have to spend money, atleast for the basic stuff.

Some times investing money becomes a source of motivation and you work with double the energy.

With a cheap web hosting services causing problem for people to access your website wouldn’t help you grow the business.

Understand this problem by putting yourself under visitors shoes (anyways you are visitor too for many websites) and imagine how would you feel if you are trying to access a website and it doesn’t open or opens too slow? How frustrating it can be for you?

Well for me, I immediately hit the red cross button on the left hand corner of my Macbook and open other website in new tab.

I’m sure many of us do that unless we don’t have any other alternative.

Google too doesn’t appreciate the websites which take too long to open or don’t open at all and throw them far behind in SERPs.

My blog was hosted on the server purchased from a local hosting company and I had almost forgotten it.

Few months back in July when I checked this blog, I noticed it opens really slow and probably this could be one of the reasons why it doesn’t perform well in SERPs.

# 2) Tweak to improve page load time (other than hosting)

I’ll divide this into several parts and discuss each of them separately. While changing hosting made a really big differences, these factors which I’m going to discuss now have helped me to further increase the traffic as well.

2.a) – Choose fast loading Premium WordPress theme

The other important thing to consider is the selection of fast loading WordPress theme. Some of the themes are specially optimised to load faster and are good to go.

I’d recommend to avoid using free themes and go for premium one. I know it would add some extra cost but it is really necessary, we have no choice.

2.e) Mobile friendly site

If you purchase the themes from above said sellers, all the themes are mobile friendly however since having a mobile version of a website is necessary, you can create one by using below plugin if you don’t have one already.

Use Content Delivery Network

Content delivery network makes website load faster yet again. CDN distributes the website files on the network at different locations in the world and fetch the data from nearest location of the user which makes the website load super fast.

For example consider your website is hosted with a company having server in Singapore.

If anyone opens it from any other part of the world, It will take some time to respond but if you are using CDN, your website files will be distributed to the network and if anyone accesses your website from any other country in the world, it will be served from the server located in that particular country and not from Singapore. Makes sense?

Sunil is the founder of Blogging an Art, Blogger & Internet Marketing Consultant. He likes to write about SEO, Affiliate marketing, Social media marketing, Email marketing and other related stuff. He is an active contributor at various tech blogs as well and loves to travel.

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Besides being the founder of BloggingAnArt.com, I'm a Blogger & Internet Marketing Consultant. I've been active in Internet Marketing for about a decade and helped many businesses to grow their website traffic and sales multiple fold. Read more